It was lovely to see the sun again today and have temps above freezing. Yes, there were strong winds, but as the snow on the roads started to melt, the winds helped prevent black ice when the temperature dropped this evening.

We've had a strong, cold east wind for several days and today it was even windier, but the temperature got to almost 13⁰︎C today. It dried my grass off so thoroughly that I could get the mower out and get it down. It was nine inches high in paces! Job done!

It's March, and not a wet alley cat, not today. Withering dryness; the kind of blue sky with not a speck of humidity, blinding searing intense blue. And a lion of a March wind is blowing. If this were, not New England, but the Four Corners, there would be dust everywhere and tumbleweeds all clumped up and flying down the highway.

Unseasonably warm. 2/3 of the dumps of snow are gone. The maple trees are confused. Raining now. Back to COLD by tomorrow morn. Loads of Cedar Waxwings in the apple tree. A robin arrived several days ago too. Been drunk on the apples since. Two days ago, he chirped that spring chirp and I discovered his Missus has arrived. Love is in the air... which is odd as it's way too early given out usual climate.

Sunny and lovely today, but: howling, gusty winds all day yesterday; we're among 600,000 Detroit Edison customers out of electricity, with no restore estimate available yet. We put up in the (mostly packed) Best Western half a mile from home last night.

Easy snow. Roads were pretreated. The parking lot at my condos wasn't, but still the snow melted on the pavement. It did stay on grass, trees, and cars, but I was able to push it off my car easily with a broom even though it was a few inches deep. If only all our snowstorms were like this!

Warmest day since Nov. 1 in Bude. Shorts, cotton gilet with extra vest all that were required. Most people we met out walking were muffled up as if there was a big freeze. They'll never get their Vitamin D and I hope they'd sprayed their underarms.

Here in Moncton, NB.ca it's -plugyourcarin and windy. Not to worry, full moon tomorrow so it will warm up... and snow. The weather terrorists are already calling for a Nor'easter and talking about blizzard conditions.

Do Heavenly Dancers (Northern Lights) count as weather? We've had some amazing displays over the past few weeks- - and now there's a service that predicts when and where to view them! (usually in the middle of the night -- -) In the garden snowdrops, hazel catkins and apple blossom have been out for ages, daffodils coming into bloom now along with various early rhododendrons. As ever the sun/clouds/rain/wind/temperature vary not only from day to day but often from one extreme to another within the day - or between by home and the city 30 miles away! So everyone has to wear layers and carry a backpack in order to add to the layers being worn - or stow away the ones needing to be removed! As they say - several seasons in one day in Scotland. Ah well, at least we never have to worry about water shortages, and always have lush green vegetation to enjoy!

yes, but only in low latitudes - Aurora Australis I'll never see it here in Sydney. Maybe if I ever get to Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania I can see one, but as that festival is in January & summer makes if hard to see them, probably not.

Round number 3? Mum's gonna freak out. Last week, the power was out from 2AM to 8:30AM and she was "having flashbacks" from late January (out for 4 days). Then it was out from 11AM to 1PM and she was really getting antsy.

Moncton and Southeast New Brunswick A low pressure system will approach slowly from the south tonight and Monday then linger around the region into Tuesday. Precipitation from this system will begin over southernmost portions of New Brunswick early Monday morning as a mixture of light snow, ice pellets and freezing rain but should change to rain later in the morning as temperatures climb slightly above the freezing mark. However, as temperatures fall later in the day and the precipitation continues to push northward, there is potential for a prolonged area of freezing rain to form Monday evening and persist into Tuesday morning. At this time northern and eastern portions of the province are most at risk for freezing rain, but there is still a chance it could affect western and southern portions of the province as well.

The public is advised to monitor future forecasts as freezing rain warnings may be required.

Sparing a thought for you, gnu. If the forecast here is to be believed, that storm will spare southern New England, but we will see. When it gets warm enough here for things to thaw, we won't need rain: it may flood anyhow.

A happy medium today. It's well above freezing, and the plowed piles of frozen snow are gone. It's too cool and cloudy to remind anyone of summer. (I have seen people with horrendous sunburns lately, forgetting to protect themselves on the clear warm days.)

It's showery, which the growing flowering leafy things need. The earthworms, when it's wet, have been showing up above the surface of the soil for the first time in months.

I can happily wear layers in the day. The nights are still cool enough for pleasant sleeping.

In the Four Corners area of the southwestern US, where I lived for years (not a native though), at this time of year it would be lousy weather.

No spring rain, as the rain comes with the summer monsoons. The spring floods result from the melting of the mountain snowpack. That seasonal wind would blow, the one that has this magnetic charge that rubs everybody raw. Dust and tumbleweeds EVERYWHERE.